The second Oxford Book of Lent and Easter Organ Music brings together a rich and varied selection of pieces for use from Ash Wednesday through to Pentecost. Encompassing works suitable for liturgical, concert, and pedagogical settings, this collection presents contemporary voices alongside historical favourites, serving as an invaluable and comprehensive resource for a major part of the church year.
- 30 pieces for manuals and pedals, suitable for use during Lent, Palm Sunday, Holy Week, Easter, Ascension, and Pentecost
- Seven new commissions from composers including Matthew Owens, Amy Summers, Trevor Weston, and Alison Willis
- A broad range of original music for organ, spanning the seventeenth to twenty-first centuries, from composers such as Georg Friedrich Kauffman, Max Reger, Cécile Chaminade, Henriette Puig-Roget, and Cecilia McDowall
- A variety of musical forms, styles, and technical difficulties, all arranged in liturgical order
- Four new arrangements of Lenten and Easter pieces by Robert Gower and a new arrangement by John Rutter of his organ duet Variations on an Easter Theme for solo organ
Out of the Depths (Psalm 130) - Amy Beach
Prélude - Cécile Chaminade
Elegy - Edward Elgar
Prelude on 'Steal away' - Iain Farrington
Meditation on 'Attende Domine' - Alison Willis
Sortie - Mel Bonis
Chorale Prelude on 'Valet will ich dir geben' - G. F. Kauffmann
Festive Music on 'Lift high the cross' - Zsolt Gárdonyi
Es ist vollbracht! (from St John Passion) - J. S. Bach
Prelude on 'Rockingham' - Pamela Decker
Prelude on 'Horsley' - Matthew Owens
Deploracion, Henriette Puig-Roget
Chorale Prelude on 'Herzlich tut mich verlangen' - Max Reger
Prelude on 'O Traurigkeit, O Herzeleid' - Ethel Smyth
Ave verum corpus - Errollyn Wallen
Preludio Festivo - Marco Enrico Bossi
A Festal Fanfare - Gary Davison
Easter Joy - Elmer Samuel Hosmer
Fantasy on 'Easter Hymn' - Maureen Howell
Variations on an Easter Theme - John Rutter
Prelude on 'Scimus Christum surrexisse' - Amy Summers
Lobet Gott in seinen Reichen (from Ascension Oratorio) - J. S. Bach
Grand choeur pour l'Ascension - Adolphe Marty
Quiet Ascension - Graeme Shields
Requiescat - Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Veni, Creator Spiritus - Cecilia McDowall
Retrospection - Florence Beatrice Price
Feria Pentecostes - Camille Saint-Saëns
Komm, heiliger Geist, Herre Gott - Matthias Weckmann
Pools of Living Water - Trevor Weston
